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submitted 4 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

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[-] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 92 points 4 months ago

Ok but how is anyone meant to know if you generated your docstrings using copilot?

[-] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 4 months ago

I'm saddened to use this phrase but it is literally virtue signalling. They have no way of knowing lmao

[-] Venator@kbin.social 9 points 4 months ago

It's also probably to make things slightly simpler from a legal perspective.

[-] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago

That makes sense yes

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